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Direct linkBasturkmen, Helen – Language Teaching, 2019
Teaching English for academic purposes (EAP) and for specific purposes (ESP) are demanding areas in which to work. Teaching in these areas typically includes a range of tasks, such as investigating learner needs and specialist discourse, developing courses and materials in addition to classroom teaching. Therefore, teachers face a range of tasks…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
Basturkmen, Helen – Language Teaching, 2014
In recent years a number of comparative studies based on an established approach to genre analysis have been published in the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) literature. Studies in this emerging strand of research typically aim to identify how the rhetorical structure of a particular genre (a text type) or part of a genre may vary across…
Descriptors: Language Styles, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedBasturkmen, Helen – English for Specific Purposes, 2002
Reports on a study exploring patterns of discourse organization in seminar-type discussions. Analysis was made of patterns of sequential organization in discussions between English for academic purposes students in university seminars in the United Kingdom. Analysis revealed two patterns of organization: simple exchanges of pre-formed ideas and…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes
Peer reviewedBasturkmen, Helen; Lewis, Marilyn – Assessing Writing, 2002
Reports an exploratory case study examining notions of success in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing course from the perspectives of three non-native students and their teachers. Aims to investigate how the individual learners constructed activities and their own success in the course. Supports other studies of student and teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Case Studies, Class Activities, Educational Research
Download full textBasturkmen, Helen – 2000
The strategic and indirect use of language in academic discussions poses particular difficulties to non-native speakers of English. In order for English language teachers to address the needs of non-native speakers in this area, descriptions of how language is used by proficient speakers of English in academic discussions are required. This paper…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language)
Basturkmen, Helen – 1998
A study investigated metadiscoursal signalling devices used in discussions in a business administration course in a British university, focusing on the use and function of the devices in seminars and tutorials. Data were drawn from seminar and discussion classes recorded for distance education purposes. The corpus of about 30,000 words included 18…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Classroom Communication, College Instruction, Discourse Analysis
